Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1887-04-14
MISSOURI STATE NEWS.

The robbery of private residence in st
Louis of over 200 in money and valu-
ables was reported to the police few
days ago.
Work has been commenced laying track
on the river route of the Missouri Pacific.
A large force of men is at work, and the
rails have reached Lexington. The work
so far done has already been of cons idera-
BILE benefit to Lexington, as all the sup
plies have been purchased there.
Columbus Pennington, aged about thir-
ty-five years. well-known druggist of
Truxton, suicided a few days ago, by
swallowing two hundred grains of choral
hydrate. He was just recovering from a
protracted spree, and told some of his
friends that he would rather die than live.
He swallowed the potion and went i'm
mediately from the store to his house and
went to bed, telling his wife what he had
done. She instantly aroused the neigh
bors and sent for doctor, but all efforts
to save his life proved fruitless, and he
died in a few hours.
The Pettis County Criminal Court april
term) has forty-five cases on it's docket,
many of which are attributable to last
years railroad strike.
The United States Court for the ST.
Joseph division convened few days
since, appointed court officers and ad-
journed until the October term.
An inventory of the possess ions of the
late Milton Tootles, of st. Joseph, foots VI
the snug sum of 100000 and upward.
A successful test of the Kansas City
Electric railway was made few days
ago. former defects having been over
come.
The ST. Louis militia companies are
nearly all taking steps toward disband-
ment. No pay, no militia.
al o1l T
boy, was drowned few days ago by fall
ing from an elevator into the river. His
body was not recovered.
Considerable enthusiasm has been
aroused in Independence in the interest of
the Kansas City q independence Dummy
Airline railway, which is designed to
connect the two cities. 1t is thought that
with the completion of the line property
IN Independence will double, and in some
cases treble, in value
William Bremser committed suicide in
st. Louis, few days since, by taking
fatal dose Of arsenic 1t was his second
attempt, ard he made a success of it.
Business disappointments led him to the
act.
John Judson, alias Jackson, a negro,
was arrested in St Louis on election day
for endeavoring to vote on another mans
name, and Judge Cady gave him the butt
end of the laW-twelve months in the
Workhouse.
Warrants were issued against seven
teen saloon-keepers in st. Louis for keep
ing their places of business open on
election day in violation of the Mayors
proclamation ordering them closed. They
We're all arrested, and gave bonds to ap-
pear Cor trial.
In bill for divorce filed by Louisa
Long against her husband, Henry A.
Long, a wealthy citizen of Kansas City,
few days ago, she alleges that on one oc-
casion, when she was suffering with pneu-
monia, he forced her to leave the house
during snow storm and walk several
blocks TO her parents house, and that on
another occasion he hit her on the head
with beer bottle.
c. D. Comfort, one of the Republican
Councillors elect oil st. Louis, will not be
thirty years of age until June 20 next,
and until he reaches that age he is not le-
ga1ly qualified. Meanwhile the Demo-
Gratis will endeavor to have the seat de-
clared vacant.
A monster invitation is being prepared
in st. Louis to be forwarded to President
Cleveland to induce him to visit that city
next fall during the carnival season.
While engaged in burning brush a few
days ago, Mrs. Thomas Woods, living
near Louisiana, Pike County, narrowly es-
capped burning to death. Her clothes
caught fire, and she was severely, but
not fatally, injured. She saved herself by
running to a small stream close by and
jumping in.
The decaying body Of woman was
found in the current of the Missouri riv-
err at st. Joseph a few evenings since.
The flesh was nearly all off the bones, and
the features could not be traced. The body
I'm rio yyitho11 iOo in hn NOT
ters' field as an unknown. Who are what
she was, or where she lived, no one
knows.
VIM. Fox. a workman in the employ of
the Marblehead Lime-Kiln Company, at
Louisiana, was instantly killed few days
ago by the premature discharge of blast
which he was arranging. His body was
horribly mangled. One or two other
workmen were more or less injured.
The Kansas City Trades Display As
sociation has been Incorporated, and
preparations are being made to give street
parades during the fair next fall that will,
if possible, surpass those of st. Louis.
The display and ball afterward will be
modelled after the Yelled Prophets of st.
Louis. 1t is proposed if enough money
can be raised, to repeat the street show
each night during fair week There is nc
talk as yet, how ever, of permanent ex.
position building.
One of the heaviest mechanics liens
ever filed in Kansas City was filed a few
days ago by Fl. Selden Il Co., against the
Kansas City q Southwestern Railroad
Company. The plaintiffs claim that the
defendants are indebted to them for
work, labor and materials rendered in
building road-bed for the defendant in
Jackson and Cass counties, to the amount
of sl53, 1876.
Mrs. M. Maloney, wife a railroad en-
plOye in St Joseph, attempted suicide al
the Gait House a few nights ago by swaI
lowing two ounces of laudanum. Do.
mestic trouble was the cause. A doctor
and stomach-pump saved her life. She
is about thirty years of age.
The mother of Jailer Seigmund, of st
Louis. was fatally burned a few days ago.
her clothing becoming ignited by an over
turned lamp. The old lady being at home
alone, was not discovered until the cloth
ing was nearly burned from her person.
Major j. B. Kaiser, proprietor of the
Madison House, of Jefferson City, died a
few nights ago. He was past sixty-twc
years old, and one of the most widely.
known hotel men in the State.
Wind up the base ball crank.
Mrs. Lille NJ. Ashbaw, wife of A. E.
Ashbaw, who lives on the State line,
in Kansas City. eloped few days ago with
her stepson, Ambrose Richter, aged TWEEN
ty-one Mrs. Ashbaw is forty years of
age,
A gang of box-car robbers has been dis
covered in the famous Cracker Neck"
and three of them are now in the official
grip. Detective John belong, of the Mis-
souri, Pacific system, and Marshal Hugh
McGowan, of Jackson County, made the
capture. They went few nights ago to
Ut flo H. Mal.